On 2008-04-27, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 1) The data for the race about to start updates every (say) 15 >> seconds, and the data for earlier and later races updates only every >> (say) 5 minutes. There is no point for me to be hammering the server >> with requests every 15 seconds for data for races after the upcoming > > Try using an HTTP HEAD instruction instead to check if the data has > changed since last time.
Get If-Modified-Since is still better (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html 14.25) -- Jarkko Torppa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
